The Knowledge Grid
is an intelligent and sustainable Internet application environment that enables
people or virtual roles (mechanisms that facilitate interoperation among users,
applications, and resources) to effectively capture, publish, share and manage
explicit knowledge resources. It also provides on-demand services to support
innovation, cooperative teamwork, problem-solving and decision making. It
incorporates epistemology and ontology to reflect human cognition
characteristics; exploits social, ecological and economic principles; and
adopts the techniques and standards developed during work toward the
next-generation web.

The Knowledge Grid
Environment consists of autonomous individuals, self-organized semantic
communities, an adaptive networking mechanism, an evolving semantic overlay
keeping meaningful connection between individuals, flows for dynamic resource
sharing, and mechanisms supporting effective resource management and providing
appropriate knowledge services for problem-solving and innovation.It supports innovation and harmonious
development of science, technology and culture. Main research objects are
architecture and functions of the environment and its individuals, relations
between individuals and between communities, and the relation between the
environment and socio-economic development.